Mahapps.metro: [Enhancement] MarkdownTextBlock

[amkuchta]

In one o the recent releases to the UWP Toolkit, a MarkdownTextBlock control was introduced, and it looks pretty awesome. Would anyone else find this useful (thought - it could be used in the MetroDemo rework to display a user guide)

[avechuche]

+1. Great idea

[punker76]

@amkuchta @avechuche This is a huge control and can not add line by line from UWPCommunityToolkit. There is a lot of code which is only available now in UWP.

[amkuchta]

@punker76 I figured it would be a lot - I took a second to look at the code, and it is definitely intimidating.

If you want to say no to this, I completely understand. I'd offer to take a shot at implementing, but I don't have the time right now to commit to it.

[amkuchta]

@punker76 you can also "on hold" this, if you want - maybe I can pick it up another time.

[thoemmi]

There's a nice markdown control available, Markdig.wpf.

I created a demo app using the MahApps's Quick Start guide and added following lines to MainWindow.xaml:

<Grid>
    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
        <ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
        <ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
    </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
    <TextBox
        x:Name="source"
        Grid.Column="0"
        Margin="5"
        AcceptsReturn="True"
        FontFamily="Consolas" />
    <wpf:MarkdownViewer
        Grid.Column="1"
        Margin="5"
        Markdown="{Binding ElementName=source, Path=Text, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay}" />
</Grid>

Here's the result:

[amkuchta]

@thoemmi congratulations, you're my favorite person today (for whatever that is worth :laughing:)

[thoemmi]

Thanks, but the credits go to Nicolas Musset, the author of Markdig.wpf. 😉